Well, I tried that with Babelfish as German to English, and German to French as well. It seemed to be saying that there was something patronising in translating the Germaine quote into French and that that is my Modus Operandi.

Can't see it myself. "To treat with lofty condescenscion as of a superior to an inferior" - to quote a dictionary. That most definitely isn't be how I see Germaine Greer. (But since Yiddish isn't exactly German, maybe Babelfish didn't get it quite right.)